The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-07-28
a year, with great reduction to clubs.
Address Peterson's Magazine, 500
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Address Peterson's Magazine, 500
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
A young man who is his own grand
father thus explains through the press
81 married widow who had grown
up daughter. My father visited our
house very often, fell in love with my
daughter and married her. So my
father became nv step-son and my |
daughter my mother, because she had |
married my father, Some time after
ward my wife had a son. He is my
fathers brother-in-law and my uncle,
for he is the brother Of my step-moth-
er. My fathers wife, namely my step
mother, had a son. He is my brother
and at the same time my grand-child
for he is the son of my daughter. My
wife is my grandmother, because she
is my mothers mother am my
wife's husband and grandchild at the
same time; and as the husband of a
persons andmother is his grand
father, ! am my own grandfather
Er.
Omaha World: Cincinnati bank
er's wiie-"My dear, you must give lit
tie Dick spanking, and a hard one,
too" Great Banker-"I haven't time,
/ must" "But it won't do to over
look this fault. He stole all the mon
ey you brought home from the Sun
day school collection and then went
out and pitched pennies with it."
"Great Cesar? Lost every cent of it,
| suppose" No; he won a lot more
that some other boy had taken from
his father" 90? Tell him to put my
money back where he got it, like an
honest boy"
Brother Blaine may have little the
edge on Buffalo Bill in the eyes of the
American people, but over in Britain
the Maine manis small potatoes beside
the hero of the plains. Those English
know a representative of American cul-
ture when they meet him in the road,
even if he is rugged out in moccasins
and buckskin breeches. Go it, William,
we are for you till death.
\ A comedy called kissing in the
t dark" was played Nashville last week.
l The same Play is performed in this
e town every Sunday night. 1t has had
: longer run than any other play on
L record. The play contains only one
S act and no scenes-unles the old folks
t should unexpectedly enter the room
S during performance.-Sparta State
e and Farm.
Rev. William N. Cleveland, the
. brother with whom the President has
been visiting at Forestport, is Pres
byterian preacher and breaches at
three different churches, alternating
" between them and preaching three
times every Sabbath. His charges are
six miles apart
Had he thousand tongues to sing
the praises of the Thousand Islands
Il the President would doubtless use 999
e of them in thanking the good Lord
Is for the escape of Mrs. Cleveland in
a that railway smashup. She is angelic
= but nobody wants her to be an angel
~ yet awhile hilddelphid Record.
v Buffalo Bill and his troop of red
is men went to Church in London the
S other day with all their war paint on,
n It was fun, apparently, for the Indians.
1t but some of the children in the con-
n gregation thought that their hour had
'e come and yelled accordingly.
l. The original of long lost letter
: written by General Washington in
:, acknowledgement of an address from
-. the citizens of Newport has just been
~ found in that city. It is written on
= both ides of two quarto pages OF let.
-, ter paper and is still distinct and read.
. able.
id A purse OF $50 has been raised fol
III Arthur Robinson, the Virginia ex.
is slave who rescued eleven people from
er drowning in Jamaica Bay, l.. !. Rob
rs inson was born in Westmoreland
county, Virginia, and is about 80 years
. old.
i'd Mrs. Cleveland has received from
id some admirer in Mexico coat-Of.
r. arms OF the United States, worked or
" heavy cardboard in feathers. The
of feathers, most of them colored, are
!" from many different kinds of birds
re Mrs. Parker, of Dundee, Scotland
> the founder of the British Women
IN Temperance Association, is going tt
G. take one thousand Scotch women tt
"